on tech, photography and productivity

I recently attended nordic.js, a two-day conference all about JavaScript. There were amazing speakers presenting, such as Douglas Crockford, Reginald Braithwaite and Hakim El Hattab. The Artipelag venue was located in the Stockholm archipelago and the surrounding nature was beautiful. The mornings were magical as well, sunny with a thick fog, straight from a fairytale.

Work in the same Lightroom environment on multiple Macs

Having recently made the switch from Aperture to Lightroom, the ability to use the same Lightroom catalog on multiple computers seemed like an illusive dream. It made sense not only for sharing edits and settings, but also for synchronizing tags and publish status for services like Flickr and 500px. It is time to convert that dream to reality.

What to do now that Aperture has been discontinued

Apple recently announced the retirement of Aperture, their professional photo management and editing application. This is unfortunate news but not entirely unexpected, considering the lack of new features for several years prior to this announcement.

I was recently hit with a denial of service attack on this very blog, and it hold up surprisingly well. The only reason I found out about it was when, after the attack was well under way, the WordPress Jetpack plugin alerted me about my site being down.

This was the first time I saw the Stockholm Pride parade. There were an insane amount of people both attending the parade and watching it all happen. A surprising amount of parliament leaders and celebrities attended as well.

Overcast is the newest incarnation of the podcast family of apps. I have been a Downcast and Podcasts users — that is until now. Marco Arment just released Overcast, a podcast app with great looks and amazing features. It’s free to download and use, but with a $4.99 in-app purchase, it becomes so much more than your average podcast app.

I am a big fan of Trello and I like the way it lets you design your own workflow in any way you want. It’s strengths also have a dark side to them — it can be hard to nail down a specific workflow and sticking to it, since there are no enforcements of any kind.

Opbeat seem to have nailed a pretty good development workflow using Trello and is well worth a read.